Estella Canziani

Nude Female - Italian British art Edwardian nude portrait drawing female artist

1911

Estella Canziani was the daughter of the painter Louisa Starr (1845–1909) and Enrico Canziani (1848–1931), an Italian civil engineer. A painter of portraits, landscapes, illustrator and decorator. Trained as an artist, studying first at the Copernicus, a Kensington school run by Sir Arthur Cope and Erskine Nicholl, then at the RA schools. Canziani painted scientific watercolors in hospitals and made molded splints and casts of abnormal cases during wartime. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, London and in Liverpool, Milan, Venice and France. She was the author of Costume, Traditions and Songs of Savoy and several other works about Italian folklore. Canziani traveled extensively throughout Europe.